- What is 'That Gunk on Your Car,' and what does it let a driver identify?
- Why does the splatter of a squashed insect actually carry diagnostic information?
- How can insect distribution across a landscape be inferred from a car's windscreen?
Entomology and Invertebrate Biology
The study of insects and other invertebrates.
- What physical traits define Mantophasmatodea, the heelwalkers, as a new insect order?
- How rare is the formal recognition of a new insect order, and when had one last been described before 2002?
- How does a locust detect an imminent collision using only a handful of neurons?
- Why did Rind and Simmons choose scenes from Star Wars to stimulate the locust's visual system?
- What are pseudoscorpions and why was their presence in beds notable?
- How did researchers measure and compare the jump heights of dog fleas versus cat fleas?
- Why does the difference in jump height between dog fleas and cat fleas remain unexplained by their evolutionary relationship to their hosts?
- What is the Schmidt Pain Index and how does it rank insect stings?
- What are hoverflies, and why did Fredrik Sjöberg devote three books to collecting them?
- How do horseflies use polarised light to locate water, and why does this cue mislead them?
- Why do dark horses attract more horseflies than white horses?
- What is a gynosome, and how does the female Neotrogla use it during mating?
- Why does mating in Neotrogla last up to seventy hours?
- How might nutrient-poor cave habitats explain the evolution of reversed genitalia in Neotrogla?
- What chemical signature does a housefly leave behind after briefly touching a glass of wine?
- How accurately could trained sommeliers detect that a fly had been in their wine?
- Could fly pheromone detection be developed into a food-quality biosensor?
- What pattern did Richard Vetter notice among entomologists who studied insects professionally?
- Why do submarines make such favorable habitats for cockroaches?
- What special constraints did the Navy face in exterminating roaches inside a sealed submarine?
- How did Wilson's monograph on ants become the standard reference in myrmecology?
- What hypotheses have been proposed for why high-contrast stripe patterns disrupt biting flies' vision?